Printer s cabinet



(No Model.)

G. M. WILLIAMS. PRINTBRS CABINET. No. 489,665.

Patented Jan. 10, 1893.

, Ihvrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE M. WILLIAMS, OF SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA.

PRINTERS CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 489,665, dated January10, 1893.

Application filed August 8, 1891. $erial No. 402,074. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. WILLIAMS, acitizen of the United States,residing at Santa Rosa, in the county of Sonoma and State of California,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Cabinets;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists in revolving or rotating printing office cabinets,which are constructed in the form of pyramids, and are provided withsuitable boxes or compartments on their inclined side walls, adapted tohold the various kinds of printing office material, and the inventionwill be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective viewshowing the shape of the cabinet and the boxes on theinclined side wallsof the pyramid, the said boxes, or compartments, varying in size toadapt them for holding the articles usually employed in making up andlocking the forms of newspaper type, plates and cuts, completing theform for the press. Fig. 2 isa central vertical sectional view of thesame; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a cabinet having two side wallsinclined upwardly and inwardly so as to nearly meet at the top, aparallelogram base, and parallel triangular ends, having pigeonholeboxes arranged with slanting bottoms, and sides slanting at right angleswith the bottoms of the boxes. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of thehollow pyramidal metal casing or cover, which fits over the cabinets.Fig. 5 is an end View of a cabinet containing drawers for tweezers,bodkins, quoins, wrenches, 850., which cannot be properly provided forin the ordinary compartments for other articles. Fig. 6 is a perspectiveview showing the cabinet mounted on a bracket to adapt it to be attachedto a wall, or table.

Referring to the several parts by their designating numerals: 1indicates the supporting standard base of the device, to the center ofwhich is secured the standard, 2, which is round in cross section. Uponthe upper end of this standard is screwed or otherwise removablysecured, ahandle, 8, by which the revolving or rotating cabinet may bemoved from place to place. Near its lower end, the standard, 2, isformed or provided with the nearly cone-shaped standard-bearing block,4. The cabinets may be formed with three or four equal side walls, 5, orwith two side walls, 5, and two end walls, 10. The sides, 5, inclinefrom their lower to their upper ends toward a common'center so as toform either a three or four-sided pyramid, while in the latterconstruction,the side walls only are on an incline from the bottom tothe top; and in each case the small end of the cabinet is at the top.The standard, 2, passes down through the center of these pyramids, thelower end of the pyramid being provided with a suitablebase piece, 6, towhich the sides of the pyramids are securely fastened, said base piece,6, having the central conical bearing washer, 7, which fits upon theconical bearing block, 4., holding the pyramid in position while itrevolves or rotates, and greatly reducing the friction. At the upper endof the pyramid is preferably arranged a metal washer, 8, to prevent theiron standard from wearing the wood, as the pyramid revolves around it.Upon the inclined side walls, 5 of the pyramid are arranged thepartition walls, 5 which rest at right angles to the side walls and formthe boxes or compartments, 9, which will be of such size and shape as toadapt them to receive material used in a printing office, such as leads,slugs, brass rules, metal furniture, borders, ornaments, &c. By reasonof the side Iwalls, 5, being pitched or inclined upwardly and inwardlyas described, it will be readily perceived that not only is a greaterarea of surface afiorded, but the type, leads or the like are preventedfrom falling from the compartments, 9.

Instead of the partition walls, 5, being arranged vertically andhorizontally as described, they may be arranged vertically oblique atright angles to each other as shown on the end of the cabinet in Fig. 3of the drawings, so as to adapt them to hold the longer leads, rules,850., in a convenient position where they can be readily reached by thehand, the inclined sides and bottom holding the material in properposition when the pyramid revolves or rotates.

The particular object of my invention is to bring all the small articlesused about a printing office into a compact space so that when any ofthein-are required they can be reached at once without the trouble ofgoing to a separate case to get it; and it will be seen from theforegoing description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, that I effect this object with my invention.-

The revolving or rotating cabinets, which are of all sizes, will containall the articles required for use, and when not in use (if not toolarge) can be set aside on a shelf in the office and covered with ametal casing or cover, 14, Fig. 5, which is formed like a hollow pyramidto fit over the pyramid cabinets',and has a slot in its top throughwhich the handle, 3, projects.

In Fig..6:I have shown the revolvingor ro-. tating cabinet mounted-onemetal bracket,

11, which is secured to the wall by'serews-or bolts, and is formed nearits outer end with a vertical opening through which the lower end ofthesupporting standard,.2, passes- The conical bearings, 4 and 7, are thesame as in the other forms of brackets,-and avnut, 12, is screwedon'thethreaded lower end ofthe standard, 2.

.In Fig. 5 I have shown the cabinet provided with drawers,vl3,forholdingv tweezers, bodkins, quoins; wrenches, &c., which cannot beproperly provided for in the ordinary pigeonholes or compartments. Thesedrawers can occupy any convenient place in the cabinets, as willbereadily understood. These cabinets: can bemade of either wood-or metal,or both. in combination, and of any size desired, made and arranged to.hold any one class of-.material, such as leads only, brass rules only,ornaments only or borders only, 850., or iany part of one cabinet 1 canbe used in the make up of the other cabinets, giving the printer anykind of a eabinethe may desire. The oval bearing-block Washers may beentirely dispensed with when desired and a flat bearing substituted tolessen the cost of manufacture. It will be seen thatthe main object ofmy invention is revolving or rotating printing office cabinets, the sidewalls of which are inclined like the sides of a pyramid, or upwardly andinwardly toward a common center thus preventing the materialfrom fallingout, and bringing nearly all the articles used by'a'printerwithin'convenient reach of his hand, Without being compelled to run to aseparate case or cabinet for what he needs. I With my invention thecabinet is at hand and all he has'to do-is to revolve the pyramid ilntilthe required side containingrw-hat he Wants is before him.

Having, thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Pat.- ent is:

and a standard secured to and rising from the base;-of-the revolublecabinet-mounted upon the standard-andcomprisinga plurality of side wallsinclined upwardly and inwardly toward a common center, and thepartition. walls arranged upon the side Walls andextending outwardly'therefrom, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affiX mysignature in presence of two Witnesses.-

GEORGE M. WILLIAMS:

Witnesses:

A. E. BOLTON, G. A. TUPPER.

The combination-With a "base or pedestal

